Manitoba UFO sightings up in 2012

More Manitobans than ever before reported seeing unidentified flying objects last year.

A survey on UFO sightings in Canada released Monday by Ufology Research reveals there were 124 reported sightings in Manitoba in 2012, up from 81 the previous year and the most sightings recorded in a single year since records started being kept on the topic in 1989. Seventeen of those sightings emanated from Winnipeg, the report states.

Manitoba is part of a larger trend that saw the number of UFO sightings explode across Canada. There were 1,981 sightings reported, or about five per day — more than twice the number of reports made in 2011 and nearly double the previous all-time national high of 1,004, made in 2008.

“More than half of all UFO sightings were of simple lights in the sky,” the survey states. “Witnesses also reported point sources of light, spheres and boomerangs. Although the largest percentage of reported UFOs is simply lights in the night sky, a small number are objects with definite shapes observed within the witnesses’ frame of reference.”

Every province except Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island set new records for UFO sightings in 2012. Ontario led the way with 822 sightings.

Two local sightings were cited amongst the survey’s more interesting cases.

On Feb. 10, 2012, around 7:15 p.m., the survey notes a couple driving on a road in an isolated part of the city were shocked to encounter a black, flat, octagonal object with flashing lights. After they drove directly underneath it, it moved across a field and away from them.

Fifteen days later, at about the same time, the report states two witnesses observed a flat, disc-shaped object with red lights around its perimeter.

“As it flew in horizontal flight, it turned on its side and then darted towards the witnesses’ vehicle, then vanished before their eyes when it was within five metres of them,” the report states.

Officials with Ufology Research say the survey was compiled using many sources, including UFO reporting websites, UFO organizations, civilian investigators, official sources such as Transport Canada and police, and witnesses’ own reports to the research group.

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Manitoba UFO sightings up in 2012

More Manitobans than ever before reported seeing unidentified flying objects last year.

A survey on UFO sightings in Canada released Monday by Ufology Research reveals there were 124 reported sightings in Manitoba in 2012, up from 81 the previous year and the most sightings recorded in a single year since records started being kept on the topic in 1989. Seventeen of those sightings emanated from Winnipeg, the report states.

Manitoba is part of a larger trend that saw the number of UFO sightings explode across Canada. There were 1,981 sightings reported, or about five per day — more than twice the number of reports made in 2011 and nearly double the previous all-time national high of 1,004, made in 2008.

“More than half of all UFO sightings were of simple lights in the sky,” the survey states. “Witnesses also reported point sources of light, spheres and boomerangs."